People and Places

A competition to capture visitors enjoying the National Trust's great outdoor spaces.

Open to 16 and over.

For more details - click here.

Remember there are several National Trust properties in the area:
Cambridgeshire
Anglesey Abbey
Houghton Mill
Peckover House and Garden
Ramsey Abbey Gatehouse
Wicken Fen
Wimpole Hall

Exhibition of John Gay at Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London

Until 18 October.
Entrance free.

Seventy five photographs of post-war England and iconic views of London feature in this major exhibition which marks the centenary of John Gay’s birth. Drawn from English Heritage’s extensive collection of photographs, the exhibition presents a wide range of images of people, buildings, animals and landscapes taken by Gay between the mid-1930s and 1990s.

For info and directions to gallery - click here.

Image by John Gay

The Times/Canon Young Photographer of the Year

The Times has launched the eighth edition of its Young Photographer of the Year competition, which in partnership with Canon will see the winner receive more than £3000 worth of kit and one-on-one training with the newspaper's staff photographers.

The contest calls for photographers aged 18 to 26 residing in the UK or Ireland to submit one image for each of the three categories - lifestyle, portraiture and reportage.

For more info - click here.

Heather Angel interview on Radio 4

Listen here on BBC iplayer (Interview starts 20mins 30secs in to programme).

Heather Angel has spent the last 30 years photographing some of nature's most spectacular sights. Be it storks hunting locusts in burning bushes, or a polar bear breaking wind, her photographs capture the unusual and unexpected. She has been described as 'the doyenne of wildlife photography', and has photographed the Prince of Wales in his wild flower meadow at Highgrove. But her latest project brings her home as she explores the wildlife on offer at Kew. She spent a year creating a book of photographs that challenge the perception that Kew is just about plants. She joins Jenni to talk about her exhaustive career.

For more info on Heather Angel - click here.